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PTM Radicals for Molecular-Based Electronic Devices

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Architecture and Design of Molecule Logic Gates and Atom Circuits

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Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) based on polychlorotrimethylphenyl (PTM) radicals have been prepared on different substrates showing great potential as platforms for the fabrication of molecular electronic devices. It is demonstrated that the intrinsic electrical, optical, and magnetic properties of these molecules can be used to prepare highly robust molecular switches.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN); the DGI (Spain) with projects POMAS CTQ2010–19501/BQU, MAT2010–20020, and NANOSELECT CSD2007–00041; and the Generalitat de Catalunya (grant 2009SGR00516). We also thank the European project ERC StG 2012-306826 e-GAMES. N.C thanks to Juan de la Cierva program,and M. P. acknowledges the Spanish government for financial support through BES-2008–003588 FPI fellowship.

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  1. Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus Universitari de Bellaterra, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain

    Núria Crivillers, Marta Mas-Torrent, Cláudia Simão, Markos Paradinas, Carmen Munuera, Carmen Ocal, Concepció Rovira & Jaume Veciana

  2. Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN) ICMAB-CSIC, Bellaterra, Spain

    Núria Crivillers, Marta Mas-Torrent, Cláudia Simão, Concepció Rovira & Jaume Veciana

  3. Departament de Química Física & Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional (IQTCUB), Universitat de Barcelona, 08028, Barcelona, Spain

    Stefan T. Bromley

  4. Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), 08010, Barcelona, Spain

    Stefan T. Bromley

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Crivillers, N. et al. (2013). PTM Radicals for Molecular-Based Electronic Devices. In: Lorente, N., Joachim, C. (eds) Architecture and Design of Molecule Logic Gates and Atom Circuits. Advances in Atom and Single Molecule Machines. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33137-4_6

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